TY - JOUR
T1 - Decent work in South Korea
T2 - Context, conceptualization, and assessment
AU - Nam, J. Sophia
AU - Kim, Shin Ye
N1 - Funding Information:
South Korea offers universal healthcare through the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP), funded by contribution payments, government subsidies, and tobacco surcharges. Under the NHIP, the insured are either employee insured or community (self-employed) insured. Employees are expected to pay half of the 5.08% 1 of their salary in contributions, with their employer paying the other half of this amount. The employee insured are able to enroll their spouse, children, siblings, and direct lineal ascendants under their plan with virtually no extra cost. The rest have their contribution rates determined according to their income, property, living standards, age, and economic participation, with reductions for those living in remote rural areas ( Kang, 2016 ).
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© 2019 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - This mixed methods study investigated how decent work is conceptualized and understood in South Korea by surveying 320 Korean working adults. Using a convergent parallel mixed methods design, qualitative and quantitative parts of the study were conducted concurrently. Emic conceptualizations of decent work were qualitatively explored, and compared with the quantitative findings from administrating the Korean-translated version of Duffy et al.'s (2017) Decent Work Scale. Internal consistency estimates for the Korean-Decent Work Scale (K-DWS) subscales ranged from 0.74 to 0.94, and the confirmatory factor analysis yielded a good fit for the 5-factor model (safe working conditions, access to healthcare, adequate compensation, free time and rest, and complementary values) to the data with South Korean participants. Evidence largely supported convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of the scale. The bifactorial structure was similar to the original U.S. version, did not differ across age, but did differ across gender. A few differences are discussed through a cultural lens. Implications for future research are discussed.
AB - This mixed methods study investigated how decent work is conceptualized and understood in South Korea by surveying 320 Korean working adults. Using a convergent parallel mixed methods design, qualitative and quantitative parts of the study were conducted concurrently. Emic conceptualizations of decent work were qualitatively explored, and compared with the quantitative findings from administrating the Korean-translated version of Duffy et al.'s (2017) Decent Work Scale. Internal consistency estimates for the Korean-Decent Work Scale (K-DWS) subscales ranged from 0.74 to 0.94, and the confirmatory factor analysis yielded a good fit for the 5-factor model (safe working conditions, access to healthcare, adequate compensation, free time and rest, and complementary values) to the data with South Korean participants. Evidence largely supported convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of the scale. The bifactorial structure was similar to the original U.S. version, did not differ across age, but did differ across gender. A few differences are discussed through a cultural lens. Implications for future research are discussed.
KW - Decent work
KW - Psychology of working
KW - South Korea
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068389520&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jvb.2019.05.006
DO - 10.1016/j.jvb.2019.05.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068389520
VL - 115
JO - Journal of Vocational Behavior
JF - Journal of Vocational Behavior
SN - 0001-8791
M1 - 103309
ER -